” He resumed, after a mouthful: “Here is a girl of sixteen or seventeen, seventeen and a half to be exact, running about, as one might say, in London. Since she was only seventeen when she had them, she didn’t deal with it very well. There was a huge desk of heavily carved ebony at one end, and at the centre, a couple of straight-backed chairs stood before a great fireplace at the outer wall, flanked by two bookshelves with casement windows above. “I wonder if you give me a thought. If it was not an actual personal lover, it still might be the lover not yet incarnate, not yet perhaps suspected. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. While the carpenter irresolutely quitted the room, with a strong presentiment of ill upon his mind, a light quick step was heard descending the stairs, and before he could call out to prevent it, a man was admitted into the passage. "Something worse, I fear," Wood replied. " New? That did not describe her. ‘Your mystery lady, I mean. Wood's present position, and subsequent proceedings fully intelligible, it may be necessary to give some notion of the shape and structure of the platform on which he had taken refuge. Yes, yes; that was all very well in ordinary cases; but yonder was a soul in travail, if ever she had seen one. I intend to remain very serious indeed while I’m doing it. There was a pint of champagne and a quart of mineral water (both taboo) at his elbow. Pottiswick had mentioned muttering.
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